The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake - Softcover

William Blake; David V. Erdman; Harold Bloom; William Golding

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385152132 ISBN 13: 9780385152136

Publisher: Anchor, 1982

Synopsis

Since its first publication in 1965, this edition  has been widely hailed as the best available text  of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, if  includes up-to-date work on variants, chronology of  poems and critical commentary by Harold Bloom.

An  "Approved Edition" of the Center for Scholarly  Editions of the Modern Language Association.

About this title

About the Author:

WILLIAM BLAKE was born in London in 1757. He was educated at home and then worked as an apprentice to the engraver James Basire before joining the Royal Academy in 1779. In 1782 he married Catherine Boucher, and a year later began his career as a poet when he published Poetical Sketches. This was followed by Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794), which he also designed and engraved. His other major literary works include The Book of Thel (1789), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1793), Milton (1804–8), and Jerusalem (1804–20). He produced many paintings and engravings during his lifetime. Blake died in 1827.

David V. Erdman was an American literary critic, editor, and Professor Emeritus of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor Erdman established his reputation as a William Blake scholar. Erdman is the author of Blake: Prophet against Empire, The Poems of William Blake, The Illuminated Blake: All of William Blake's Illuminated Works with a Plate-by-Plate Commentary, and more. 

Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, and The American Religion. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy’s Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, and the Alfonso Reyes International Prize of Mexico. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and in New York City.

Review:

Abstinence Sows Sand All Over
All Pictures Thats Panted With Sense & With Thought
All Religions Are One
America A Prophecy
An Ancient Proverb
And His Legs Carried It Like A Long Fork
The Angel
The Angel That Presided O'er My Birth
The Angel, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Anger And Wrath
An Answer To The Parson
Are Not The Joys Of Morning Sweeter
Auguries Of Innocence
The Birds
Blake's Apology For His Catalogue
Blind Man's Buff
The Blossom, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Book Of Ahania
The Book Of Los
The Book Of Thel
The Caverns Of The Grave I've Seen
A Character
The Chimney Sweeper, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Chimney Sweeper, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Clod And The Pebble, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Contemplation
Cosway Frazer & Baldwin Of Egypts Lake
The Couch Of Death
Couplet
Cr--- Loves Artists As He Loves His Meat
A Cradle Song
A Cradle Song, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Cripple Every Step Drudges & Labours
Cromek
Cromek Speaks
The Crystal Cabinet
Cupid
Day
Dedication Of The Designs To Blair's Grave: To The Queen
The Defiled Sanctuary
Delicate Hands & Heads Will Never Appear
A Divine Image, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Divine Image, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
A Dream, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
Earth's Answer, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Echoing Green, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
English Encouragement Of Art (final Reading); Cromek's Opinions
English Encouragement Of Art (first Reading)
Epigram
Epigram
An Epitaph
An Epitaph
Epitaph: John Trot
Eternity
Europe A Prophecy
The Everlasting Gospel (version 2)
The Everlasting Gospel: Preface
Experiment
Fair Eleanor
The Fairy
A Fairy Stepped Upon My Knee
The First Book Of Urizen
Florentine Ingratitude
The Fly, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Four Zoas
The Four Zoas: Nights The Fifth And Sixth
The Four Zoas: Nights The First And Second
The Four Zoas: Nights The Ninth
The Four Zoas: Nights The Seventh And Eighth
The Four Zoas: Nights The Third And Fourth
The French Revolution
The Garden Of Love, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Gates Of Paradise; For Children
The Gates Of Paradise; For The Sexes
The Ghost Of Abel; A Relation In The Visions Of Jehovah
Give Pensions To The Learned Pig
The Golden Net
Great Men And Fools Do Often Me Inspire
The Grey Monk
Grown Old In Love From Seven To Seven Times Seven
Gwin, King Of Norway
He Has Observ'd The Golden Rule
He's A Blockhead Who Wants A Proof Of What He Can't Perceive
The Hebrew Nation Did Not Write It
Holy Thursday, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Holy Thursday, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
How Came Pride In Man
How To Know Love From Deceit
The Human Abstract, Fr. Songs Of Experience
I Asked My Dear Friend Orator Prigg
I Feard The Fury Of My Wind
I Heard An Angel Singing
I Laid Me Down Upon A Bank
I Rose Up At The Dawn Of Day
I Rubens Am A Statesman & A Saint
If I E'er Grow To A Man's Estate
If It Is True What The Prophets Write
If Men Will Act Like A Maid Smiling Over A Churn
If You Play A Game Of Chance
If You Trap The Moment Before It's Ripe
Imitation Of Pope: A Compliment To The Ladies
An Imitation Of Spencer
In A Wife I Would Desire
Infant Joy, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
Infant Sorrow, Fr. Songs Of Experience
An Island In The Moon (in A Manuscript Fragment)
Jerusalem; The Emanation Of The Giant Albion
Jerusalem; The Emanation Of The Giant Albion: Chapter 1
Jerusalem; The Emanation Of The Giant Albion: Chapter 2
Jerusalem; The Emanation Of The Giant Albion: Chapter 3
Jerusalem; The Emanation Of The Giant Albion: Chapter 4
King Edward The Third
Lacedemonian Instruction
Lafayette
The Lamb, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Land Of Dreams
The Laocoon
Laughing Song, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Lily, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Little Black Boy, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Little Boy Found, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
A Little Boy Lost, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Little Boy Lost, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Little Girl Found, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Little Girl Lost, Fr. Songs Of Experience
A Little Girl Lost, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Little Vagabond, Fr. Songs Of Experience
London, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell
The Look Of Love Alarms
Mad Song
Madman I Have Been Called
Marriage
The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell
Mary
The Mental Traveller
Merlin's Prophesy
Milton
Mock On, Mock On! Voltaire, Rousseau
Morning
Motto To The Songs Of Innocence & Of Experience
Mr. Cromek To Mr. Stothard
Mr. Stothard To Mr. Cromek
My Pretty Rose Tree, Fr. Songs Of Experience
My Specter Around Me Night And Day: Postcript
My Spectre Around Me Night & Day
My Title As A Genius Thus Is Provd
Nail His Neck To The Cross, Nail It With A Nail
Never Pain To Tell Thy Love
Night, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
No Real Style Of Colouring Ever Appears
Now Art Has Los Its Mental Charms
Nurse's Song, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Nurse's Song, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
O Dear Mother Outline Of Knowledge Most Sage
O Lapwing, Thou Fliest Around The Heath
Old Acquaintance Well Renew
An Old Maid Early, E'er I Knew
On Another's Sorrow, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
On F----- & S-----
On Friends And Foes
On H---- The Pick Thank
On H----ys Friendship
On Homer's Poetry
On S-----
On Sir Joshua Reynolds
On The Great Encouragement Given By English Nobility & Gentry
On The Virginity Of The Virgin Mary And Johanna Southcott
The Only Man That Eer I Knew
P --- Loved Me, Not As He Lovd His Friends
A Petty Epigram .. Have Paid Great Sums In Venetian & Flemish Ooze
The Phoenix To Mrs. Butts
A Pitiful Case
A Poison Tree, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Prologue To King John
Prologue. Intended For A Dramatic Piece Of King Edward The Fourth
Rafael Sublime Majestic Graceful Wise
Riches
Samson
The School Boy, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Shepherd, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Sick Rose, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Silent Silent Night
Since All The Riches Of This World
Sir Joshua Praised Rubens With A Smile
Sir Joshua Praises Michael Angelo
The Smile
Soft Snow
Some Men Created For Destruction Come
Some People Admire The Work Of A Fool
Song
Song
Song
Song
Song
Song
Song By An Old Shepherd
Song First By A Shepherd
The Song Of Los
Songs Of Experience: Introduction
Songs Of Innocence: Introduction
Spring, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Sunflower, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Sussex Men Are Noted Fools
Swelled Limbs With No Outline You Can Descry
The Sword And The Sickle
Terror In The House Does Roar
There Is No Natural Religion (a)
There Is No Natural Religion (b)
These Are The Idiots' Chiefest Arts
Tiriel
To Autumn
To Chloe's Breast Young Cupid Slyly Stole
To English Connoisseurs
To F ---
To Flaxman
To God
To H----
To Hunt
To Memory
To Morning
To Mrs. Ann Flaxman
To My Myrtle [mirtle]
To Nancy F ---
To Nobodaddy
To S-----d (1)
To S-----d (2)
To Spring
To Summer
To The Evening Star
To The Muses
To The Royal Academy
To Tirzah, Fr. Songs Of Experience
To Venetian Artists
To Winter
The Tyger [tiger], Fr. Songs Of Experience
Visions Of The Daughters Of Albion
The Voice Of The Ancient Bard, Fr. Songs Of Experience
A War Song To Englishmen
Was I Angry With Hayley Who Used Me So In
The Washer Woman's Song
When I See A Rubens Rembrandt Correggio
When Klopstock England Defied
When You Look At A Picture You Always Can See
Who Will Exchange His Own Fire Side
Why Should I Care For The Men Of Thames
The Wild Flower's Song
William Bond
William Cowper
With Illustration To Gray's Poems
A Woman Scaly
You Don't Believe
You Say Their Pictures Well Painted
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0385152132
• ISBN 13: 9780385152136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 990